bookelly wrote:Acta is what's wrong, ump was squeezing him and his stuff was up. Shoulda been yanked 6 hitters ago.

Hang this loss (if it is one) on Manny.

Yeah, Millwood's strike zone seemed wider, but Masterson was all over the place. He didn't deserve a big zone.

Acta has to try and get as much length as possible out of Masterson. 12 games in 13 days and we've used the same few guys in the pen a lot.

I have bigger issue with Santana continuing to call for first pitch fastballs when SEA was sitting on the first pitch. Then they throw two straight sliders to Ryan down and away and never once come inside with the heat before walking him.

Ah well, everyone's entitled to a bad outing every now and then. Masterson struggles with LHB. That was highly evident tonight.

A God Damn dead man would understand that if a minor league bus in any city took a real sharp right turn, a Zack McCalister would likely fall out. - Lead Pipe

Dnthateonthepronk wrote:It is quite impressive. It felt like a blow out and they could have just started giving AB's away, or trying to get 9 runs with one swing. But they came out and had professional quality AB's.

Yep. Even though it was only the 5th inning, they could have rolled over. They probably would have had they not had an offensive explosion in KC.

A God Damn dead man would understand that if a minor league bus in any city took a real sharp right turn, a Zack McCalister would likely fall out. - Lead Pipe

Almost went to bed when we were down 8-2. Then we got all offensive and, needless to say, I'm wide awake now!

I was wondering why Santana didn't go out to Masty when he was having trouble with his control. Is it because Masty doesn't want to be bothered by the catcher coming out? Or is it because Santana's a bit of a putz when it comes to catcher's social skills?

I've tried 'em all, I really have, and the only church that truly feeds the soul, day in, day out, is the Church of Baseball.~~~Annie Savoy-"Bull Durham"

Perez deserves a pass for tonight, guys. Seager had a great at bat and Perez doesn't want to walk him. He promptly gets a DP ball that takes a bad hop. He goes from the game being over to the tying run on 3B and the winning run at 1B on nothing more than bad luck.

He showed some stones tonight. Bullpen redeemed itself after that KC series. They were terrific tonight.

Big ups to Hagadone.

A God Damn dead man would understand that if a minor league bus in any city took a real sharp right turn, a Zack McCalister would likely fall out. - Lead Pipe

skatingtripods wrote:Perez deserves a pass for tonight, guys. Seager had a great at bat and Perez doesn't want to walk him. He promptly gets a DP ball that takes a bad hop. He goes from the game being over to the tying run on 3B and the winning run at 1B on nothing more than bad luck.

He showed some stones tonight. Bullpen redeemed itself after that KC series. They were terrific tonight.

Big ups to Hagadone.

Sure double-play ball that bad-hops into a sticky situation and Perez doesn't fold? Yup, big ones. Glad we won - didn't want to have to crawl through my computer and start bitch-slapping some of these guys.

I've tried 'em all, I really have, and the only church that truly feeds the soul, day in, day out, is the Church of Baseball.~~~Annie Savoy-"Bull Durham"